Look Again : Visibility /anglais

by Johny Pitts

48 pages, Paperback

Published November 3, 2022

Reviews

[Jane Fudger · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very short book where the author explores the visibility of paintings set in the Tate Gallery in London He explore a number of paintins which people pass by without looking - usually ethnic works.He talks to Tate migrant employees who work in roles such as security and their take on these "invisible" paintings
As James Baldwin said "You never had tolook at me . I had to look at you. I know more about you than you know about me"
An insightful read.

[Stella Grover · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the face of Tate Britain’s ‘rehanging’ Pitts reflects on artistic emphasis and the narrative perpetuated by great institutions like the Tate in selecting white male artists without addressing the wider and more multicultural history of this country. But also, perhaps more interestingly, the people that work there who haven’t had the intellectual, artistic backgrounds of the curators. We hear from the caterers, security guards, cleaners who walk the halls of the Tate and experience
an artistic education exclusively within those four walls.

James Baldwin: “You never had to look at me. I had to look at you. I know more about you than you know about me.”

Stepping into a time where art is more accessible and universal. It’s nice to see.